We began our Thursday with sensory diets, integration, ring toss, play and Christmas dancing! Sensory diets are so important for regulation, auditory processing skills, teamwork, social skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination. Play is also important for creativity, language arts and communication skills, mathematics skills, role-play and drama, fine motor skills, teamwork, and social skills. Ring toss is a great tool to work on our fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills. We changed up the ring toss today to make the math more difficult as well as the physical element to enhance their gross motor, hand-eye coordination, and accuracy.
Ring Toss
Play Time
Mr. Sander was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.
Countdown to Christmas!
Two of our friends wanted to work on their time skills (JUMP Math) and did very well with digital and analog time, as well as thinking about and using the proper times we use throughout the day in our daily timetable.
Ms. Elizabeth and Mr. Carter went over Elizabeth's spelling words and made up their own sentences! Some of the words used were: jet, red, wise, & end. They needed some prompting and help with grammar and proper sentence structure, but came up with the sentences independently!
Wheel Barrel Race- team work, sportsmanship, body awareness, mapping, and control, gross motor skills, bilateral movements, upper body and core strength, and fun!
Mr. Carter is helping our poor deflated ball after two months of neglect!
We continued to use our gross motor skills, bilateral movements, language arts skills, and time and rhythm to practice our Christmas songs in front of our peers!
In gym class we continued to play a great game that the students made up: Dodgeball-Coloured Octopus-Pac Man Tag. It was so much fun and everyone demonstrated teamwork, social skills, social problem solving skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
In Mindfulness today we went over a relaxing video that had cool patterns and different coloured images. All of our friends were so attentive, focused, determined, and calm while working on their breathing, body awareness and body mapping and flexibility.
After lunch we used our fine motor skills and bilateral movements to practice shoe tying.
Next, we decorated some ornaments for our Christmas Concert stage!
After shoe laces and art we went over our Christmas Concert again. For our next session we got to have fun with a team building game where we have to build a structure that was at least 20 cm tall! The boys used two way communication, team work, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills, social skills, and creativity and abstract thinking. Some of us needed a sensory break and decided to take Mr. Dean into the sensory gym at this time as well.
Here we are all working hard to fix Mr. Jacob's message on the board. We had to use proper sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and team work.
Here we are learning independence and life skills and cleaning up the room!
Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and used different coloured blocks to symbolize how our day was, and how different times of the day went. We also got to share our own ideas and thoughts on how our day went, and took turns saying one nice thing about our friends from today's work.
HOMEWORK:
To go over some of our favourite items/toys/clothes/photos/etc. and take a photo of them, develop the photos (Walmart has instant printing for 10 cents a photo), put them in a scrap book, and then write the date and year you got them, why, from where, from who, what it is, etc. During our Show & Tell all of us are having difficulties putting a specific place and time on our objects. Keeping a scrap book (journal log) of our items, toys, and memories will help us make connections, links, and begin to comprehend time and make the connections between past, present, and future events in our lives. This should be an ongoing project for the remainder of the year and then can continue on throughout the following years as well! Have fun with it and get creative!
Spend 15 minutes reading a book of your child's choice, a cartoon, instructions, recipe, comic strip, etc. Make reading fun, engaging, an adventure, and not a boring chore. You can also have your child create their own picture story book using the 5-Finger Retell Model.
Work on money , time, and number sense and numeracy (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) skills at home and out in the community. Have your child make their own shop, store, etc. at home using real items/foods. Price out items, look online for comparable prices, and then use real money (5 cents to 2 dollar coins) to make specific amounts, for example, have your child show you how to make $1.80 out of nickels, dimes, and quarters.
Mr. Jacob : )
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